Twenty-five feet above the tarmac, flying upside down past thousands of spectators, we watched Freddy Cabanas cut a ribbon with his prop to open Naval Air Station Key West's Southernmost Air Spectacular in 2010. An opener for the Navy's famed Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron, it was hardly the first time this charismatic Conch wowed us with aerobatic feats of daring.

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